Album Rating: 4.5

I was thinking perhaps if Reptile was split into 2 parts (aka. do the DT thing a la In Presence of Enemies), especially when looking at Garden and how the 2nd half of Reptile ties in, it seems as if it would be better if Garden was heard before the reprise in Reptile (makes sense right..?)

Album Rating: 3.5

I was quite surprised that I enjoyed this at all. Never been into this band before.

Album Rating: 3.5

Satellites has so much extra at the end. Just finish the song damn it.

Album Rating: 4.0

It’s prog metal sooo I mean

Album Rating: 2.5

prog metal can be sober tho

Album Rating: 4.5

This is their best album by far. Fucking masterpiece.



Reptile is hands down their best song ever.

Album Rating: 4.5

It is indeed a fantastic album

Album Rating: 2.5

nobody posting lyrics here smh

Album Rating: 4.0

Reptile still blows my mind. What a mammoth of a song.

Album Rating: 4.0

I need to listen to this again. The fact that Reptile is so long makes this album not really the kind of thing I play casually.

Album Rating: 3.5

Reptile, Blood Eagle & It's Only Smiles are the top tunes here.

Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off

I dig reptile but I usually start the album from Blood Eagle, this one and Follow Your Ghost really deliver the goods for me

Album Rating: 4.5

Man, Satellites is so beautiful and Sentient Glow is such a PII throwback complete with the Absolomb piano outro. So much to love here.

Album Rating: 4.5

Agree

Album Rating: 4.5

Still one of my favorites from this year. Reptile may be my song of the year. Still a few bands to go, but anyone topping such an insanely well crafted song seems unlikely to me.

Album Rating: 4.0

You could WAAAAIIIIILLLLLL to the moon

Album Rating: 4.0

he threw that gaping brain asssuuuuunderrrrr

Album Rating: 3.0 | Sound Off

expooooooooosed

Album Rating: 3.5

Reptile and Blood Eagle are the two sickest songs to start an album, like probably ever. That solo and the breakdown after part in Blood Eagle is Periphery at their absolute finest good lord.

Jesus christ you guys. They came to Edmonton for the first time, finally. Been listening since they were releasing their earliest demos. Don't know why it took them so long to get here.

We had donairs first because there's a shop right around the corner from the sketchy venue (Spencer was making IG stories of the used needles outside their bus LOL). Walked in to the tiny shop and there's Matt and Misha waiting for food and Covet's drummer sauntered in after a while too.

Few minutes later Covet opened and were pretty good! It started off like...eh....this has been done...repeating simple riffs...and then it builds and builds, and Yvette bursts into these insane tapping passages from time to time that were really cool to see.

Veil of Maya was another surprise, as I wouldn't expect a band like that to be able to play well live or pull off in-tune clean vocals. I don't know why. But they did and were pretty decent. Samey songs in the middle but when I recognized a song they were pretty fun.

Spencer helped them finish off Mikasa which is probably something they do every set on this tour.

Smoked a couple really powerful spliffs in the smoke pit just before Periphery got on, and that was kind of the best case scenario for what followed. The first two bands had a couple of stage lights, but just barely. Suddenly Periphery had the whole room's lights synced and doing their thing, as well as projecting some cool patterns on the huge ceiling. Really cool just to look at.

But what surprised me most was Spencer. I went lukewarm on the band since he joined and skipped a couple records for years. Didn't like his poppy cleans, and kind of ignored them for a few years.

Well, he just put on the best vocal performance I've ever seen live. I mean that in terms of never missing a note, always being near-perfectly in key, all while running around and Doing Frontman Things.

Another surprise was the live mixing. Actually flawless, and maybe the best I've heard next to Ne Obliviscaris. Every member was crystal-clear. Insane. It's never THAT good. So it was really cool being able to hear every single note Mark and Misha were playing together. And shit can he solo live.

10/10. Fucking awesome show.